Can't get files from network to local disk

[Aeroflop]

I have a Netra X1, which I'm building a firewall of - running Gentoo Linux on mirrored disks etc, but I'm facing a mysterious problem, which I just can't understand - if I can copy a single file to local HD's or to USB-stick over the network, it will be extremely slow. I can use the machine over SSH with no problem, so the network is working. I can copy files from my laptop to USB-stick, move the stick physically to Netra and copy the files from the USB-stick to local HD's with no problem, so RAID (Linux software-RAID) and local disks should be working.

Any ideas, anyone?

garmaugh ~ # uname -a
Linux garmaugh 2.6.24-gentoo-r7.aero.intranet #8 Sun Aug 31 23:09:14 EEST 2008 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) GNU/Linux


garmaugh ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/sparc/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r7.aero.intranet sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r7.aero.intranet sparc64 sun4u
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc"
CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gcc64 gdbm gpm iconv isdnlog midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session sparc spl ssl tcpd unicode vim-syntax xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint mach64 mga r128 radeon sunbw2 suncg14 suncg3 suncg6 sunffb sunleo tdfx voodoo"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY


garmaugh ~ # prtconf
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u
Memory size: 512 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):

SUNW,UltraAX-i2
packages (driver probably installed)
terminal-emulator (driver probably installed)
deblocker (driver probably installed)
obp-tftp (driver probably installed)
disk-label (driver probably installed)
SUNW,builtin-drivers (driver probably installed)
dropins (driver probably installed)
kbd-translator (driver probably installed)
chosen (driver probably installed)
openprom (driver probably installed)
client-services (driver probably installed)
options (driver probably installed)
aliases (driver probably installed)
memory (driver probably installed)
virtual-memory (driver probably installed)
pci (driver probably installed)
isa (driver probably installed)
dma (driver probably installed)
rtc (driver probably installed)
power (driver probably installed)
SUNW,lomh (driver probably installed)
serial (driver probably installed)
serial (driver probably installed)
flashprom (driver probably installed)
pmu (driver probably installed)
i2c (driver probably installed)
temperature (driver probably installed)
dimm (driver probably installed)
dimm (driver probably installed)
i2c-nvram (driver probably installed)
idprom (driver probably installed)
motherboard-fru (driver probably installed)
ppm (driver probably installed)
beep (driver probably installed)
fan-control (driver probably installed)
lomp (driver probably installed)
ethernet (driver probably installed)
ethernet (driver probably installed)
usb (driver probably installed)
ide (driver probably installed)
disk (driver probably installed)
cdrom (driver probably installed)
SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (driver probably installed)


-Aero
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Hw setup: x86, x86-64, MicroSPARC, UltraSPARC, MIPS, Alpha EV67, CBM
Sw setup: Gentoo Linux, Debian Linux, SGI Irix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, WinXP, MS-DOS

[dmpogo]

So how exactly are you copying the file to this machine ?

[Aeroflop]

So far I've tried Rsync (over SSH), scp, simple cp-over-NFS in both directions (ie. commanded my server or laptop to copy to sparc and commanded my sparc to copy from my server or laptop) and wget from various places. The problem remains the same: if the file comes from the network, for 90% sure it won't get to local disk.

I also checked my switch, there's no errors seen on the network link. I've also tried various cables, both NIC's individually and right now they are bonded together, equipped with VLAN's and the switchports are configured to be trunks.

-Aero
_________________
Hw setup: x86, x86-64, MicroSPARC, UltraSPARC, MIPS, Alpha EV67, CBM
Sw setup: Gentoo Linux, Debian Linux, SGI Irix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, WinXP, MS-DOS